Breathe (2017) on Netflix
PG-1320171h 58mBiographyDramaRomance
Robin Cavendish, twenty-eight, falls ill with polio in Kenya in 1958 and is left paralyzed from the neck down, on a respirator. His wife Diana refuses the hospital's three-month verdict.
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In 1958, Robin Cavendish and his wife Diana are in Kenya, where Robin falls ill with polio at twenty-eight. The disease leaves him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a respirator to breathe, and doctors give him three months to live. He is flown back to Britain, where he lies in a hospital ward, depressed, refusing visits from Diana and their newborn son, Jonathan, and asking to be taken off life support. Diana keeps coming anyway, and his spirits slowly lift. When she works out how to manage his daily care herself, she proposes moving him and the respirator home. The hospital consultant, Dr. Entwistle, warns that Robin cannot survive two minutes without the ventilator, and other doctors and nurses help with the move.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Breathe (2017)
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- Jonathan Cavendish, the son of Robin Cavendish, commissioned William Nicholson to write the screenplay and produced the film himself, drawing on the "swashbuckling band of eccentrics" he knew as a child.
